Dominique Manotti

Le mani su Parigi

Il corpo nero

Il sentiero della speranza

David Foenkinos

Sylvain Tesson

Jo Nesbo

Bernhard Schlink

Jonathan Coe

Philippe Djian

Philippe Labro

Thierry Jonquet

Javier Marías

Thomas Day

Carole Martinez

Pascale Gautier

Tonino Benacquista

Elsa Marpeau

Retrouvez dans ce dossier les premiers chapitres de 15 titres Folio incontournables pour vos lectures d'été : Malavita (Tonino Benacquista), La vie très privée de Mr Sim (Jonathan Coe), Du sel sous les paupières (Thomas Day), Incidences (Philippe Djian), Nos séparations (David Foenkinos), Les vieilles (Pascale Gautier), Mygale (Thierry Jonquet), Les gens (Philippe Labro), L'honorable société (Manotti/DOA), Un coeur si blanc (Javier Marias), Les yeux des morts (Elsa Marpeau), Du domaine des murmures (Carole Martinez), Le léopard (Jo Nesbo), Le Liseur (Bernhard Schlink) et Dans les forêts de Sibérie (Sylvain Tesson). Vous pouvez accéder directement à chaque extrait par la table des matières de ce dossier ou lire les extraits à la suite. Retrouvez aussi photographie et biographie des auteurs. Tous ces livres numériques sont en vente chez votre libraire.

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Dominique Manotti is back on form with a tale of intrigue and corruption. A call-girl whose black book lists her elite international clients is found murdered in an underground garage; a plane bound for Iran laden with illegal arms disappears from the skies over Turkey, and the president's closest adviser Bornard, head of a controversial Elysee security unit, manipulates the system with consummate ease - and illegality. Until the day when rookie investigator Noria Ghozali determines to untangle the threads which bind these events together. In doing so she penetrates the Elysee's innermost system, confronts the workings of money and corruption within government, and in the process is forced to combat the institutional - and overt - racism which repeatedly stalls her.

Affairs of State

This fast-moving story takes the reader rapidly along dark paths of sinister events in Le Sentier, the heart of Paris's rag trade. One spring morning a Thai girl is found dead in a fashion workshop. Another unlucky prostitute, or something more sinister? A club is uncovered where people secretly get filmed having sex - including some very distinguished men. This is the seedy underworld of Paris - the traffic in heroin, illegal immigrants without work permits, police officers' secret lives. A Turkish man - a police informer and leader of exploited immigrants rag-trader workers - is also Police Inspector Danquin's lover. This is a gripping morality tale of twentieth-century Paris. Dominique Manotti teaches nineteenth-century Economic History. "Rough Trade", her first novel, was awarded the top prize for the best thriller of the year by the French Crime Writers Association.

Rough Trade

The players in this deadly-serious game of Monopoly will stop at nothing. In Pondange, Lorraine, the Korean Daewoo group manufactures cathode ray tubes. Working conditions are abysmal, but as it's the only source of employment in this bleak former iron and steel-manufacturing region, the workers daren't protest. Until a strike breaks out, and there's a fire at the factory. But is it an accident? The Pondange factory is at the centre of a strategic battle being played out in Paris, Brussels and Asia for the takeover of the ailing state-owed electronic giant, Thomson. Unexpectedly the Matra-Daewoo alliance wins the bid. Rival contender Alcatel believes there's foul play involved and brings in the big guns led by its head of security service. Intrepid private cop Charles Montoya is called to Lorraine to investigate, and explosive revelations follow - dirty tricks, blackmail and murder.

Lorraine Connection

Another exhilarating crime novel by the best-selling author of "Rough Trade", chosen Book of the Year in the "Independent" by Amanda Hopkinson and Joan Smith. A group of school friends who campaigned together at Rennes in the heydey of 1968: Agathe Renourd and her protege Nicolas Berger are in charge of the communications network of a major insurance consortium; Christian Deluc has become a council member at the Elysee Palace; Amelie raises thoroughbreds. Now, in 1989, the paths of these former students are due to cross in an entirely unexpected fashion as they start playing with fire, carried along by the euphoria born of power. Events begin to take off: race horses die under mysterious circumstances; unimaginable quantities of cocaine appear at Parisian parties and dashing Nicolas Berger meets a violent end when a bomb explodes in his car.

Dead Horsemeat

La crisi del petrolio del 1973 - conseguenza della guerra arabo-israeliana - scatena nel Mediterraneo intrighi finanziari e politici senza precedenti: Dominique Manotti svela un mondo opaco in cui l’unica legge è il profitto in un poliziesco ad alta tensione.

Oro nero

Il commissario Théodore Daquin, detective omosessuale e sorprendentemente romantico, colto, allergico al potere e alle gerarchie, con un passato drammatico, appassionato di rugby e di jazz, ha un fiuto particolare per gli intrighi finanziari. Difficilmente gli sfuggono le corrotte macchinazioni del capitalismo, come in questo caso. Il racconto 'Libera concorrenza' (28 pagine) di Dominique Manotti è tratto dall'antologia 'La crisi in giallo' (Sellerio 2015).

Dominique Manotti

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